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Special Operations Team Places First in Competition

ARCHIVED PRESS RELEASE: Published 5-2-2013

The team brought home a series of individual and team awards
including the Grand Championship. The team was selected from
a competitive selection process and was made up of Officer Troy
Dewitt, Corporal Jerrod Hart, Officer Josh McMath, Sergeant Mike
Parsons, Officer David Brice, Officer Jason Bell, Sergeant Wes
Phelps, Officer Jason Lawless, and Officer Perry Lewis.

In addition to the overall first place team ranking, the team
placed in the following events:

Members of several other departments from Oklahoma took part in
the games including Norman PD, Enid PD, Stillwater PD, Oklahoma
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Choctaw Light
Horsemen, and Duncan PD.

In addition to the prestige of the title of 2013 Oklahoma SWAT
Games champion, the Tulsa Police Department gets the privilege of
hosting the 2014 Oklahoma SWAT Games. This will be the first
time in 5 years that the Oklahoma SWAT Championship has been won by
a team from northeast Oklahoma. Captain Ryan Perkins, the
Special Operations Team Commander, said "I am very proud of these
hard working officers. They trained for this completion on
their own time and showed their high level of skill. The
citizens of Tulsa should feel assured that the best tactical team
members in the state are protecting them on a daily basis."